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Type: Exchange
Activity description: Professor Artur Silva coordinated the project entitled “Natural environments as reservoirs of resistance to last resort-antibiotics” in collaboration with Dra. Isabel Rodrigues from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, approved in the call for Projects MEC / MCTI / CAPES / CNPq / FAPs No. 61/2011, line 1, Science without Borders-Scholarship Program in the Country Modality Special Visitor Researcher (PVE). He has a project with professors Yves Le loir and Eric Guedon of the Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Rennes (France) (CNPq, process 204252 / 2017-2) in the framework of which he will spend 8 months in France in 2018.
Research Project to which it is linked: Natural environments as reservoirs of resistance to last resort-antibiotics
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
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Description of the activity: Professor Maria Paula Schneider coordinates the project approved by CNPq in international cooperation with Universidade Nova de Lisboa by FCT, entitled “Identification of the joint project: reconstruction and modeling of metabolic pathways on the genome scale of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa SPC777”. With Dr. Leonardo dos Santos Sena (Post-Graduation in Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries) they develop a project entitled “Immunogenetics of Amazonian and marine manatees”, in cooperation with Dr. Michael F. Criscitiello, an evolving authority on the vertebrate immune system , also belonging to the College of Veterinary Medicine of Texas A&M approved in Edital 077 / 2-13 CAPES / TAMU-Joint Research Projects Program.
Research Project to which it is linked: Immunogenetics of Amazonian and marine manatees
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Type: Research and Exchange Cooperation
Activity description: Professor Hervé Louis G. Rogez maintains collaborations - with the Institut des Sciences de la Vie of the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve: Professors Yvan Larondelle, & Cathy Debier; - David Campos Gutierrez & Rosana Chirinos Department of Ingenieria de Alimenos del Instituto de Biotecnologia - Biotecnología Industrial Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima Peru (project on Andean and Amazonian bioactive compounds networked with the UCL in Belgium between 2010 and 2015). With the Center de Recherches Agronomiques de Gembloux (Dr. Vincent Baeten, Juan Gutierrez and Frédéric Debode) with whom he has a scientific cooperation project on cocoa and chocolate funded by CAPES and the WBI (Belgian side). Finally, in France, there is a project involving CIRAD and Univ. de Montpellier through Dr. Fabrice Vaillant and Univ. Avignon by Dr. Raphael Lugan. This project (2015-2019) is fully funded by a private company (Naturex) and has a scholarship from a PPGBIOTEC doctoral student (Lívia Dickson Chen) who spent 18 months at UFPA and 20 months in France afterwards to defend her Thesis in co-tutelage (OUT / 2018).
Research Project to which it is linked: Optimization and use of analytical methods for traceability and authentication of chocolate cocoa
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, Institut des Sciences de la Vie of Université catholique de Louvain (France), Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru), Center de Recherches Agronomiques de Gembloux (Belgium)
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Activity description: Dr. Jerônimo Lameira Silva develops projects in collaboration with the following international groups and institutions: Dr. Vicente Moliner, Universidad Jaume I (Spain) - Researcher with significant scientific leadership in the area of Computational Chemistry. This collaboration includes the development of the project Application of hybrid methods (QM / MM) in the study of the effect of the environment in chemical and biochemical processes for natural products from the Amazon; this collaboration included the realization of sandwich doctorates in Spain and doctoral co-supervision, as well as the use of computer equipment for calculating enzymatic systems. This collaboration includes the development of the project Application of hybrid methods (QM / MM) in the study of the effect of the environment in chemical and biochemical processes for natural products from the Amazon. Professor Jerônimo also collaborates with Dr. Javier Luque, Universidad Barcelona (Spain) and - Researcher with significant scientific leadership in the field of Molecular Modeling and has already sent three students from the group to work with Dr. Javier. We also highlight the partnership with Professor Gert Kruger of the University of KwaZulu-Nata, with whom Professor Jerônimo has an expressive number of works involving computational methods applied to biomolecular systems. It is worth mentioning that the professor has experience in international collaboration and that he did post-doctorate as Professor Arieh Warshel (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013) at the University of Southern California, which shows that the professor has strong collaboration abroad.
Research Project to which it is linked: Application of hybrid methods (QM / MM) in the study of the effect of the environment in chemical and biochemical processes for natural products from the Amazon
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, Universidad Jaume I (Spain), Universidad Barcelona (Spain)
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Type: Exchange
Activity description: Dr. Júlio Cesar Pieczarka maintains close collaboration with Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Dr. Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith. Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Dr. Fengtang Yang. University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, Dr. Darren Griffin. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Roberta Sciurano. University of Central Florida, United States, Dr. William Gareth Richard Crampton. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama, Dr. William Owen McMillan.
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Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, University of Cambridge and University of Kent (United Kingdom), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), University of Central Florida (United States), Research Institute (Panama).
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Activity description: Professor Sylvain H. DDarnet defended free teaching in 2016 at the Université de Strasbourg, UNISTRA, France with the title “Fast-Forward Genetics And Functional Ecology, New Approaches To Explore Plant Isoprenoid Metabolism And Its Regulation”. Maintains collaborations - with the University of Bordeaux, France: Professor Vincent Arondel - with the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes -CNRS, Strasbourg, France: Dr. Hubert Schaller, Andrea Hemmerlin & Professor Thomas Bach; This latest collaboration was to support the PALMHEAT project (2017-2020), one of the 12 associated international laboratories funded by CNRS in Brazil. PALMHEAT is the virtual laboratory between the Institut de Moléculaire des Plantes Biology and UFPA and the funding is aimed mainly at the exchange of students and professors; so in 2017, Dr Sylvain H Darnet spent a month in the French laboratory in Strasbourg and a French student followed for 15 days a training in bioinformatics in Belém. In 2016, a 4-year agreement was signed between UFPA and the French pharmaceutical company SERVIER. The CVC NatComp project involves several groups from UFPA, represented by professor Hervé Rogez, Milton Nascimento and Sylvain Darnet and aims to create a bank of plant tissues, producing metabolites of biotechnological interest, from Amazonian plants.
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Activity description: Joyce Kelly do Rosário Silva collaborates with the Department of Chemistry of University of Alabama in Huntsville with professors William Setzer and Robert L. McFeeters, who will supervise student Shirlley Mendes da Luz (doctorate) for a period of six months (Sandwich doctorate) in 2017.
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Activity description: Professor Rommel T. Jucá Ramos has a project with Professor Preetam Ghosh (Virginia University) where he develops solutions and computational biology, including a student from the biotechnology program doing an exchange (11 / 2018-11 / 2019). With the Dominican Republic, together with the Santo Domingo Technological Institute (INTEC), it recently established a formal collaboration between UFPA and INTEC to support the project "Prospecting for antibiotic resistance and microbial diversity in the surrounding tributaries of the city of santo Sunday, through metagenomics and NGS techniques ", with INTEC funding. With Dr. Bertran Beni (University of Göttingen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) he collaborates with the exchange of a doctoral student to work on the assembly and analysis of the buffalo genome.
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Activity description: Dr. Élcio de Souza Leal: Uses bioinformatics tools to identify frequent viral strains in swine breeding epidemics, these viruses studied for obtaining vaccines through in vitro isolation and attenuation at the Institute of Animal Sciences (IAS) , Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing and the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.
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Activity description: Dr. Moysés dos Santos Miranda has a CAPES-BRAFRAGRI project: “Innovations to reduce the environmental impacts of agricultural activities and develop sustainable production”. The Project enables the Exchange of Veterinary / Biotechnology Students at UFPA with SupAgro and ENVET in France.
Research Project to which it is linked: Innovations to reduce the environmental impacts of agricultural activities and develop sustainable production
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: SupAgro and ENVET (France)
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Type: Research Cooperation
Activity description: Dr. Agenor Valadares Santos develops projects in collaboration with researchers Dr. Adriano Monteiro de Castro Pimenta, linked to the Biochemistry and Immunology Graduate Program (UFMG / MG) (grade 7 by CAPES), Scholar of CNPq Productivity 2, and with Dr. Thiago Verano Braga, linked to the Biochemistry and Immunology Graduate Program - UFMG / MG (Grade 7 by CAPES) and Physiology and Pharmacology Graduate Program (UFMG / MG) (grade 7 by CAPES) , both are part of the Biomolecule Structure and Function Mine Network, working mainly in the area of Proteome Analysis. Another relevant cooperation, also in the area of Proteomics, is with Dr. Rafael Borges da Silva Valadares, a researcher at the Instituto Tecnológico Vale (ITV), linked to the Professional Master's Program in Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Tropical Regions of the Instituto Tecnológico Vale ( ITV / PA) and the Biotechnology Applied to Agriculture Graduate Program (UFRA / PA).
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Activity Duration: In progress.
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Minas Gerais and Vale Technological Institute
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Activity Descreption: Dr. Jerônimo Lameira Silva and Claudio Nahum collaborate with Dr. Alberico Borges Ferreira da Silva, CNPq Productivity Scholar 1C, from the Chemistry Institute of São Paulo / USP, who is a researcher with significant scientific leadership in the area of Theoretical Chemistry. This collaboration includes the development of the project Application of hybrid methods (QM / MM) in the study of the effect of the environment in chemical and biochemical processes for natural products from the Amazon, with support from CAPES; as well as performing theoretical calculations using bases adapted for calculations of NMR, IR and other properties. They also collaborate with Dr. Carlos Alberto Montanari de Almeida Santos, CNPq 1D Productivity Scholarship from the Institute of Chemistry of São Paulo / University of São Paulo. This collaboration includes studies of reversible covalent inhibitors of the trypanosoam cruzi enzyme cruzaine. They are currently collaborating with Professor Marcos Pires of University Lehigh with whom they had a project approved (402572 / 2018-1) in the so-called CNPq / MS-SCTIE-Decit Nº 01/2018 - Research on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Research Project to which it is linked: Study of multidrug resistance presented by L, D-transpeptidase: A key factor for understanding resistance to antimicrobials
Activity Duration: Begins in 2011
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará and University of São Paulo.
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Description of the activity: Dr. Júlio Cesar Pieczarka has collaborations with the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Lena Geise. Federal University of Pará, Bragança Campus, Pará, Dra. Iracilda Sampaio. National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Manaus, Amazonas, Dr. Eliana Feldberg. Julio de Mesquita Filho State University, Botucatu Campus, São Paulo, Drs. Fausto Foresti and Cesar Martins. Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Dr. Rogério Vieira Rossi. Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Pará, Dr. Luis Reginaldo Ribeiro Rodrigues. University of Brasília, Federal District, Dr. Cesar Koppe Grisolia.
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Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, State University of Rio de Janeiro and State University Julio de Mesquita Filho
Number of professors and students involved: 10
Type: Research Cooperation
Activity description: Dr. Hervé Louis Ghislain Rogez collaborates with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at USP in Ribeirão Preto (grade 6 by CAPES), with Professors Niege Araçari Jacometti Cardoso Furtado (PQ2), Maria José Vieira Fonseca (PQ1D), Jairo Kenup Bastos (PQ1A) and Fernando B. da Costa (PQ1D) on bioactive compounds from copaiferas and use of phenolic compounds in preventing skin aging and as an antidepressant (project completed in 2017); has also collaborated with UNICAMP since 2000 with Professor João Ernesto de Carvalho (PQ1C) from Pharmacy and Professor Glaucia Maria Pastore from FEA (PQ1A), since 2012 with Professor Célio Pasquini (PQ1A) from the Chemistry Institute and since 2017 with prof. Douglas Fernandes Barbin also from the College of Food Engineering. Finally, since 2015, he has participated in a PROCAD on cocoa coordinated at UFPR level (grade 7 in Biotechnology) by Dr Carlos Ricardo Soccol (PQ1A) and with the participation of Dr. Luciana Porto Vandenberghe (PQ1C), Dr Júlio C. de Carvalho (PQ2) and Gilberto Vinícius Melo Pereira (DT2).
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Activity description: Dr. Artur Silva and Dr. Rommel T. Jucá Ramos have a fruitful collaboration with Dr. Vasco Azevedo of UFMG, having already published dozens of articles in collaboration within the PROCAD program between the two institutions. The researcher collaborates intensively with USP with Dr. Vivian Pellizari and Dr. Marli de Fiore in the areas of Microbial and Environmental Genetics. In addition, Dr. Silva coordinates the Paraense Genomics and Proteomics Network, supported by the government of the State of Pará and bringing together several groups of researchers from UFPA and other States and Institutions. Dr. Rommel T. Jucá Ramos, at the Federal University of Bahia, collaborates intensively with Professor Luis Pacheco, with whom he establishes exchange of students through PROCAD / CAPES, which also involves UFMG in the person of prof. Vasco Azevedo. In the interior of Minas, he collaborates with Professor Siomar Soares in bioinformatics through the development of computational tools associated with comparative genomics.
Research Project to which it is linked: several
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, Federal University of Minas Gerais, University of São Paulo, Federal University of Bahia
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Activity description: Dr. José Luiz do Nascimento coordinated the Casadinho Project, entitled Interinstitutional Cooperation Project in Biotechnology: Development of Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers Postgraduate Program in Biotechnology (UFPA).
Research Project to which it is linked: Interinstitutional Cooperation Project in Biotechnology: Development of Drug Nanocarriers
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Various
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Activity description: Dr. Maria Paula Schneider coordinates the National Network Project within the BIONORTE Program Biosynthetic genes and bioactive natural products of cyanobacteria from the Amazon: Frontiers in Biotechnology, in collaboration with Instituto Evandro Chagas, CENA - Nuclear Energy Center in Agriculture, Federal University of Tocantins, Federal University of Rondônia and Federal University of Paraná.
Research Project to which it is linked: Biosynthetic genes and bioactive natural products of cyanobacteria from the Amazon: Frontiers in Biotechnology
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Fderal University of Pará, Evandro Chagas Institute, Nuclear Energy Center in Agriculture, Federal University of Tocantins, Federal University of Rondônia and Federal University of Paraná
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Description of the activity: Professor Joyce Kelly do Rosário Silva has collaborations with the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medical Sciences at the University of Brasília (UNB-Brasília, DF) with professors Taís Gratieri and Marcílio Cunha Filho (Projects on developments cosmetic formulations from essential oils from the Amazon); Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo (USP, SP) with Professor Massuo Kato (Study of the secondary metabolism of Piper species during the Plant-Pathogen interaction); Natural and Synthetic Bioactive Products Graduate Program with Professor José Maria Barbosa Filho (Prospecting for Bioactive Products of aromatic and oilseed species from the Amazon); Chemistry Graduate program at the University of Maranhão (UFMA, MA) with professor Odair Monteiro (Chemical and biological studies of essential oils and fruits occurring in the Eastern Amazon).
Research Project to which it is linked: several
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Federal University of Pará, University of Brasília, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Federal University of Maranhão
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Activity description: Professor Élcio de Souza Leal: The project “Viral metagenomics of mosquitoes captured in the cities of Macapá / AP, Santos and São Paulo / SP” seeks to identify viruses that have not yet been described. Notably, we focus on non-pathogenic viruses, endemic to blood-sucking mosquitoes. Previous studies have already shown that some viruses can inhibit the replication of other viruses such as Dengue, Zika or Yellow Fever. We recently identified a candidate virus (DOI: 10.3390 / v10120666) and in vitro use of competing viruses is being studied by members of the group at the Adolfo Lutz Institute in São Paulo. In the same project, we have partnered with the Vitalant Research Institute (270 Masonic Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118-4417) and are running tests in silico to identify segments of interfering RNAs to be used at target sites in viral genomes.
Research Project to which it is linked: Viral metagenomics of mosquitoes captured in the cities of Macapá / AP, Santos and São Paulo / SP
Activity Duration: in progress
Institutions Involved: Fderal University of Pará, Adolfo Lutz Institute of São Paulo
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